"kippie" - Buster Keaton

[Nathan Bierma]

Someone asked me about "kippie" and "school kept" in these Buster Keaton quotes
and I was baffled; I checked some sources and then even suspected a
mis-transcription. What's going on?


"And I go 'round all the time dolled up in kippie clothes-wear everything but
a corset ..."

"It got so that I didn't care if school kept or not."

- Buster Keaton


Nathan Bierma
"On Language"
www.nbierma.com/language

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